Weblog articles and real world temporal data Tomohiro Fukuhara Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society 2-5-1 Atago, Mori Tower 18F, Minato-ku, Tokyo JAPAN [email protected] Toshihiro Murayama Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society 2-5-1 Atago, Mori Tower 18F, Minato-ku, Tokyo JAPAN [email protected] Toyoaki Nishida Graduate School of Informatics...

This paper presents an architecture that helps users to collect and qualify meta-information about web resources within a weblog and then share them with a group of people. Our architecture is a peer-to-peer network in which each peer contains a personal knowledge base represented in RDF. The designed weblog model is sufficiently robust, and the semantics of our data model is detailed to allow ...

We use data extracted from many weblogs to identify the underlying relations of a set of companies in the Standard and Poor (S&P) 500 index. We define a pairwise similarity measure for the companies based on the weblog articles and then apply a graph clustering procedure. We show that it is possible to capture some interesting relations between companies using this method. As an application of ...

Automated text classification technologies have enabled researchers to amass enormous collections of personal narratives posted to English-language weblogs. In this paper, we explore analogous approaches to identify personal narratives in Chinese weblog posts as a precursor to the future empirical studies of cross-cultural differences in narrative structure. We describe the collection of over h...

The World Wide Web offers a lot of information that has been provided by laypersons instead of experts or professional journalists. This raises the question how Internet users perceive credibility of online authors and which information on the source influences the users’ selection and processing of texts. Our study investigated the effect of selfreported expertise, community rating, and age of...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2008.07.077 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 3 5712121; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Y.-M. (C.-W. Chen). Weblog is a good paradigm of online social network which constitutes web-based regularly updated journals with reverse chronological sequences of dated entries, usually with blogrolls on the sidebars, allo...

In this study, two dependent variables of individual's intention and attitude have been defined for knowledge sharing via the employee weblog and independent variables have been determined in 3 groups of social influence factor, technology acceptance factor and social cognitive factor with subset variables including the subjective norm, social identity, group norm (first group), perceived usefu...